Shiny and New

We held off on posting this for a while because we thought we might write about Natasha's album at the same time, but as it turns out, t...

Nicki Minaj went from being our favourite new artist, and great credible new rap star, to the most irritating woman in pop. Really quickly. ...

Girls Aloud are back back back back back and here is all you need to know. We mean, we're late on this, so you probably already know it,...

Yes, it really has been a whole two decades since 1992. One of our top five Madonna albums, Erotica , turns twenty years old today and sho...

A few days ago, the above teaser appeared online: we quietly wet ourselves with excitement, and then quietly went to the toilet to clean our...

Rihanna should be releasing a Greatest Hits album by now. Getting through four successful studio albums in this current music climate is e...

So we've been power-listening to the new Ellie Goulding album and so far the biggest stand out is bizarrely a bonus track. One day we...

If you go down to the woods today, you'll find that clicking on a link to the Girls Aloud website opens this countdown. Presumably ...

Well this came out of leftfield. Perhaps we just haven't been paying as much attention to Björk as we should have been, but suddenly s...

There's not much to say about Peaches' long-awaited (can you believe it's been 3 years since I Feel Cream ?) comeback: mostly b...

Bow to Buddhist deity Christina Aguilera. Bow to her bizarrely placed belly button and bleached-to-shit hair. Bow to the enigmatic, myster...

(picture by Steve Asenjo) On the 3rd of October 2012, we returned to the Royal Albert Hall to see Tori Amos perform, this time, the quart...

The tragic genius of Solange, if our memory serves correctly, was one of the first topics we ever covered here at Shiny & New. The cha...

Four days ago, on the day Marina Diamandis had previously stated her new video for "How To Be a Heartbreaker" would be uploaded, ...

Christina has made a camp feast for the eyes. Well, someone has made a camp feast for the eyes and Christina turned up and went along with i...

This is Rihanna's new single, Diamonds. We mentioned in a previous post that the song in question was written by Sia and everyone on t...

This new Lana track is sort of hard of work. It sounds nice, it's not offensive to the ears. It has a memorable-ish tune. It's her t...

No Doubt have made a fairly basic and low-budget-looking video for "Push and Shove", their INCREDIBLE second single from their com...

On Saturday we decided to escape the bleak neon and chain restaurant hell of touristy Orlando to drive up the east coast to the total opp...

We think someone's been prodding Madonna in the back with a 'revise your setlist' stick because it seems two great big stonker...